Abstract :
Abstract - As the getting older age causes various degenerative diseases, one of the change is th e cardiovascular system..Elderly hypertension gymnastics is a sport aims to increase blood flow and oxygen supply to the muscles and skeletons that are active, especially the heart muscle so that it can reduce blood pressure. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of 5-minutes hypertension gymnasticson elderly toward reduce blood preasure in SegihanVillage, Sebulu, Kutai Kartanegara.
This research is quantitative with preexperiment design One Group Pre test-post test. the sample used in this study is 30 elderly respondents, taken using Purposive Sampling technique. Data collection used a digital sphygmomanometer, while data analysis used the Paired Samples T Test.
The result of this study is blood preasure before the average intervention 158/97 mmHg, whereas after intervention the average blood preasure was 148/92 mmHg. Paired sample t-test results þ = 0,000 = 0.05 so that H0 is rejected H1 is accepted. The conclusion of this study is that there is a significant influence 5-minutes hypertension gymnastics on elderly to reduce blood pressure in Segihan Village, Sebulu, Kutai Kartanegara.
Prevention of functional decline in the elderly?s body especially high blood preasure can be taken by physical excercise. But not all physical excercise is suitable for elderly, therefore the researcher choose the 5-minutes hypertension gymnastics to reduce the blood preasure.
Keyword : 5-Minutes Hypertention Gymnastic, blood Preasure. Elderly